AuthorTopic: Recommended Timeserver ? (Read 4175 times)

I'm running Vl-5.8, and it always initializes the system time from the hwclock, a bad idea because it's always wrong. On my other system I installed xntpd, but IIRC there's no package for VL, so it would be a lot of work. Is there some other timeserver, package for VL, so I can have the system time set from my ISP timeserver?

Timeserver? I didn't know that VL sets a clock by a timeserver. How does one check this in VL?

I'm running it as a virtual machine on my Mac, but every time I freeze and restart the machine, the time is not being reset. On other distros this doesn't happen, so I'm wondering if no timeserver was installed by default.

Timeserver? I didn't know that VL sets a clock by a timeserver. How does one check this in VL?

I'm running it as a virtual machine on my Mac, but every time I freeze and restart the machine, the time is not being reset. On other distros this doesn't happen, so I'm wondering if no timeserver was installed by default.

VL does not check a timeserver, that's the problem. AFAIK, no version of VL includes a timeserver (not sure if any distro includes one by default). If one is running a network, and wants to keep all the machines on the same time, xntpd server is a good call; IIRC, it has to be built on the system as there's no slackware packages.

I installed ntp, but I hasn't changed anything. Horage clock in my virtual machine with VL still gives the incorrect time and date. This is the only distro I've tried that does this, but it's the first one I've tried that is Slackware-based. I noticed that neither VMware Fusion or VirtualBox specify Slackware options when you first set up the virtual machine. Perhaps that's the problem?

Thanks for the suggestion, lagagnon. As it turns out, my time problem righted itself with the latest version of VMware Fusion (2.0.2), which was just posted yesterday. My VL virtual machine now keeps proper time, and the correct time is shown following the revival of a saved state.